The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-08-25
Mlanitomof pilot.
THURSDAY, AUGUST %, 1887.


IdHITy. WHICH embraces OVD pages.
John Gomez, living at Marco, Fla.
on the Gulf coast, has the reputation
of having lived to the age of III years.
Miss Margaret Orthaus. whose father
came to America as private secretary
to Maximillian, was recently married
at Oshkosh, Wis.
Local optionists viii present to the
board of commissioners of Eillsboro,
! ID. T., petition signed by 100 names
in favor of prohibition.
An old well near Ravenna, Ohio, is
attracting attention by blowing hard
enough to sound big whistle or suck
| ing air in as it takes notion.
Wichita is without debt. which can
be said of no other city in Kansas, and
taxes are lower in Wichita than in any
city, town or village in Kansas.
Under the laws of Oregon 10 per
cent of the bail money forfeited by de-
fault of persons held on criminal
charges goes to the district attorney.
Up to the 1st of July the Iron Noun
tain road sold to actual settlers 20,-
900 more acres of Arkansas lands than
it sold during the corresponding period
last year.
There is movement on foot for the
city of Oshkosh, Wis, to purchase the
water works plant, which is at present
owned by a few wealthy citizens and
valued at $4,000
Kenesaw post of Danville, H., has
adopted Peart Zerse and Katie Funk
as the daughters of the post, and have
presented them with blue sashes with
gilt-letter inscriptions.
WILDER French, who lives between
Flint and Flushing, Mich, has had five
horses killed by lightning in the last
seven years, and nearly every tree on
the farm has been struck.
There is negro man living neaa'
Coleman, Ga, who is the father of
thirty-four children He is "a years
old, has his third wife with babe at
her breast, and is as active as most
men at 30.
Mr.. f. Gatchell, who owns tract
of mountain land in Cambria county,
Pennsylvania, was looking over it the
other day and came upon a cavern in
which he found bed of snow and ice
three feet thick.
Michael Hoffman, of Reading, Pa,
65 years old and wealthy, who has
been WidoWer for six months, has
been married to Mrs. Dora A. Rentz
aged 10, who has been a widow for
only three months.
The favorite temperance refresh
ment in Rot Springs, under the three
mile prohibition law, is brandy cher
| ries. They are brought to the town
in sufficient quantities to make a great
many people drunk.
Mrs Ole Bull recently conducted a
| party of young people through the
| White Mountains. They travelled en-
| tirely III buckboards, carrying their
| baggage with them, and had all the
fun there was going.
In Europe there is proverb accord
| ing to which the visit of sovereign to
| a subject always carries great mis-
fortune in its train. In most cases it
| IS looked upon is a certain forcrunner
Of approaching death.
Eight little girls of Warwick, N. Y,
have sent s 1928 to the New York
| Iribune'S IF .esh Air Fund" for Door
| children, the proceeds of a fair held by
| them. Those little girls will make
grand women some day
Miss Alice Freeman has resigned
the Presidency of Wellesley College in
order to marry Harvard Professor.
| 1t is unfortunate for the cause of edu-
cation that this Harvard man couldn't
find wife somewhere else.
| The sale of native wine permitted by
the three-mile prohibition law is thirty
ing in Hot Springs. 1t is estimated
that 10000 gallons of domestic wine
will be made from this years crop of
grapes by Hot Springs winners.
Poison ivy can be eradicated by cut
ting off the plants just below the sur
| face of the ground and then covering
the top that is left in the ground with
| salt. Iron weeds and dock in mead
ows may be destroyed in the same
way.
A sportiye bull in Wayne, Neb.,
| charged on the town fire engine while
| the machine was being tested. The
! boys turned the hose on the bulls eye,
| and, after four successive charges, the
animal retired to the field thoroughly
cooled.
| A Lawrence, Kas., Tribune reporter
in three line item threatened to pub
fish a list of those who received their
| beer from Kansas City, and the Iri6-
at9e next day apologized editorially for
| the terror it had caused, says an ex~
change.
The temperature LOGO feet in De-
| lanys cave, Fayette county, Pennsyl-
vania, was AZ degrees while outside at
the same time it was 90 and the water
from spring in the cave was at 43
degrees, the coolest spring water in
the country.
A negro snake charmer in Little
Rock was picking up few dimes on
the street the other day by swallowing
a snake for public amusement. The
| serpent grew weary of the sport and
putc an end to the show by biting the
darky severely on the cheek.
jaw GouId has lien asked to build a
| church in the Catskill mountains where
the old one used Ia stand that "a az
| tended when boy. He would rather
GUY something cheap in the way of
| an old railroad if there was anything
of the kind in that vicinity.
The Kalamazoo gas well struck
deposit of remarkably pure clay, sixty
feet thick. This nodded and burned
would, it is said by experts, produce
| cherry red brick superior to the IA
nous Philadelphia pressed brick. 1t
Is down $50 feet below the surface.
Near Mexico, Mo-, the other day, a
| farmer named Andrew Meyers tried to
| ride vicious stallion, when the ami
NAL knocked him down and began
biting him. Meyers was completely
scalped and portion of the left cheek
and piece of the upper lip was torn
away.
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